Yes and no. They may both be called "printers" but they are entirely different things. 3D printers have more in common with CNC machines than with office printe

Yes and no. They may both be called "printers" but they are entirely different things. 3D printers have more in common with CNC machines than with office printers. They are certainly useful machines, I was skeptical at first but I finally got one and found many uses for it. Some are more reliable than others, but you still have to think of them as tools like you find in a workshop, or a sewing machine, and that need some skill and involvement to operate. They are also best used as such. The biggest value in 3D printers is to make things that don't exist to fit your specific needs, they are no replacement for mass production, in the same way people usually don't use an office printer to print a book they can find at a local bookstore, and this is will never be one click easy, just as writing a book is not easy.